Doesn't matter if the story is good or bad. That stuff is subjective. All that matters is that it's entertaining through all the other factors, being characters, conversations, events, and so on.
I've been lurking all the time, just reduced the amount of interaction in favor of more work elsewhere :v And gods that was ancient. Still remember losing the contest to that futa story. But hey, maybe it was 2nd place but the novel ended up a bestseller in the end so I can't complain. Currently...
Harem is life, harem is love.
But seriously, it's just fun to write a fluffy adventure with many characters that grow on each other and interact together (where the story is actually a story and not filler between the harem theme). It's entertaining to figure it out in an interesting way while...
Wait what. My books are 700 pages long? The new one coming up is like 750? Where did you get that number?
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Though I guess my paperbacks have currently 636 as the biggest. Max paperback page limit is like 830 pages tho.
Not to offend anyone who doesn't count into this, but SH doesn't chase after unauthorized use of images and artwork like RR does. Therefore, quite a lot of the nice covers are borrowed from Uncle Google or the rest of the more artistic family. Not all of them, naturally.